McLure Hotel

President Jefferson ordered the arrests of Aaron Burr and Harman Blennerhassett for treason

Margaret Blennerhassett was forced to flee from her home after the Burr conspiracy

Felix Grundy was appointed to the Kentucky Supreme Court

The first schoolhouse was built in the Jackson County area

Lutheranism reached the Ohio River with the Roush family and Reverend Paul Henkel

Congress authorized construction of the National Road from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling

Wheeling was chartered as a town

Newton Diehl Baker moved to Cleveland

Elkins became the county seat of Randolph County, replacing Beverly

William Blenko returned to America to try to set up shop in Point Marion, PA

Lumber mill relocation to Wirt County

West Virginia Pulp & Paper purchased land along Greenbrier River, later Cass

Chamber of Commerce established in Charleston

Charleston began new hospital on Cemetery Hill

West Virginia State Society of the DAR was organized

William Dawson married his second wife Maude Brown

Alexander Donaghho died in Parkersburg

Huntington's Fesenmeier Brewery was opened

The Sacred Heart Church of Spring Dale was built

Lily Jackson helped found the Daughters of American Pioneers

The Low Moor Iron Company employed James Kay to open the Kaymoor mines near Fayettesville

Kaymoor became an industrial village

Teepi Kendrick moved to Morgantown

Rand McNally produced a new map of West Virginia

The first execution occurred at the Moundsville State Penitentiary

Reynolds Memorial Hospital was founded by B. M. Spurr

The shop complex stopped being used by the locomotive service facility

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Barbour County

A daily edition Morgantown Evening Post began publication

Dwight Morrow received his law degree from Columbia University

Robert Hornor's son began the Parkersburg Daily Sentinel.

Elbert Hubbard published A Message to Garcia pamphlet concerning Andrew Rowan's trip to Cuba

Granville Davisson Hall wrote Daughter of the Elm

The West Virginia Northern railroad began as a coal hauler

Anne Spencer graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia

The USS Huntington was authorized by Congress

The legislature authorized the establishment of Miners Hospital No. One in Welch

The Capitol Annex was designed

The Industrial Home for Youth opened as the West Virginia Industrial Home For Girls

Lenna Yost married Ellis Asby Yost

West Virginia became one of the top ten states as regards marijuana plant eradication

Irene McKinney won a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

The Department of Mines was merged into a new West Virginia Department of Energy

The West Virginia Motor Speedway was built at Mineral Wells

The Mountain Stage first national broadcast was live from Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina

A grant from the Benedum Foundation provided funds for renovations to three buildings at Beckley College (now Mountain State University)

The WVU Mountaineer mascot figure was registered as a U.S. trademark

Walter Dean Myers received the Coretta Scott King Award for his books

A section of Myrtle Beach became the Mountain State's unofficial shoreline

John Norman received the Congressional High Technology Award

Northfork High School was absorbed into Mount View High

Pence Springs Hotel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Denise Giardina wrote Saints and Villains

William K. Simmons stepped down as president of Glenville State College

The state began to collaborate with private landowners in sharing cost of aerially treating forestland with insecticides

Judge K. K. Hall argued that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should have the power to regulate tobacco

The He-Man Golf Tournament was first held

Homer Hickam retired from NASA

Homer Hickam published Rocket Boys: A Memoir, about Coalwood

Homer Hickam published Rocket Boys: A Memoir, about Coalwood

Rocket Boys: A Memoir was selected by New York Times as one its "Great Books of the Year"

Rocket Boys: A Memoir was nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as Best Biography

William Hoffman wrote Tidewater Blood

Lonnie Bender purchased the Linger Chair Factory

Mary Lee Settle wrote Addie

Mary Lee Settle wrote Addie

Reported 40,149 marijuana plants destroyed in West Virginia

Paul Marshall retired from architecture and moved to South Carolina